Entity

Japan

An East Asian island democracy and U.S. treaty ally; one of the world's largest economies.

As of 20 Oct 2026Last evidence 20 Oct 2026

What is happening now

  • Japan, South Korea Stocks Weaken in Early Trading; Kospi Drops Over 1%, Nikkei 225 Falls Over 1.7%, SoftBank Drops Over 4%

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

  • Japan taps Chainlink’s CCIP to accelerate tokenization — Details

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

  • Bank of Japan chief ‘can’t tolerate’ underlying inflation further over 2%

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

  • IMF says Japan to fall to sixth in world GDP rankings behind India, Britain

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

All 13 events and claims involving Japan

What changed

  • Attention Rising: 228 mentions on 20 Oct 2026, against 185 on 29 Sept 2026 (+23%).
  • State Last recorded change: wire tier went from flagged to watch on 18 Oct 2026 (4 changes recorded since 10 Oct 2026).
  • Claims 1 claim first reported since 19 Oct 2026.
  • Market The cited market on “China x Japan military clash before 2027?” moved from 6% to 4% Yes since 5 Sept 2026 (the market’s own price).

How well we know this

5,746 documents · 470 publishers · 6% contain a typed assertion · last evidence 20 Oct 2026

  • Gap: assertion coverage 0.062: about 94% of mentions carry no typed assertion
  • Gap: 3 receipts withheld: no source link (the same rule the topic record applies)

In this snapshot’s daily coverage:

Reported alongside Japan

Names most often reported alongside it; bigger circles and heavier lines mean more shared documents. A dashed circle has no page of its own yet.

ChinaSouth KoreaAIUnited StatesIndiaTokyoGermanyFrance
  • China · 2,026 shared documents
  • South Korea · 1,979 shared documents
  • Asian · 1,407 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • AI · 1,286 shared documents
  • United States · 1,106 shared documents
  • India · 996 shared documents
  • Tokyo · 978 shared documents
  • Europe · 955 shared documents · no page of its own yet
  • Germany · 859 shared documents
  • France · 858 shared documents

Story momentum

Rising

The word compares 228 mentions on 20 Oct 2026 with 185 on 29 Sept 2026 (+23%); a change of less than 8% either way reads Steady.

Daily mentions +385% from 5 Sept 2026 to 20 Oct 2026, between 39 and 267 a day

How often tracked coverage mentions Japan, day by day.

Market price, cited

4% Yes

priced 16 Oct 2026 · relation: named in the question

the market: 6% → 4% Yes (-2pts, from 5 Sept 2026 to 16 Oct 2026)

on “China x Japan military clash before 2027?”

The day’s closing price on this market, and how it moved. The number is the market’s own. Ask about Japan

“China x Japan military clash before 2027?”: the market's own price; the venue link is not stored with it

Coverage volume and market price are separate measures.

For developers

This page is also an object: GET https://sigb.ai/api/v1/node/e/ff2c97b8a74390da1fb6e30b returns the same record as sb.node.v1. Or call the get_entity MCP tool at https://sigb.ai/api/mcp with name japan.

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The figures on this page, as data. The tool returns the full entity record.

Events involving Japan

Most-reported first, then newest. Registered events come from the event record; reported events are groups of claims about one occurrence. Claims are grouped when they were first reported within 2 days of each other and either name at least 2 of the same people, places or things besides this one, or share at least 25% of their wording. Each claim keeps its own record.

  • Japan, South Korea Stocks Weaken in Early Trading; Kospi Drops Over 1%, Nikkei 225 Falls Over 1.7%, SoftBank Drops Over 4%

    Reported claim · first reported 19 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • Japan taps Chainlink’s CCIP to accelerate tokenization — Details

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    single source

  • ‘Once-in-a-lifetime chance’: Japan launches historic mission to collect rocks from Mars’s moon Phobos

    Reported claim · first reported 18 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 5 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Bank of Japan chief ‘can’t tolerate’ underlying inflation further over 2%

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • IMF says Japan to fall to sixth in world GDP rankings behind India, Britain

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 6 separate publishers

    could not check

  • Saylor’s Strategy & Japan’s Metaplanet Face MSCI Index Removal Under New Bitcoin Treasury Rules

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    corroborated

  • Chainlink Expands into Japan as Pacific Meta Adopts CCIP for Tokenized Assets

    Reported claim · first reported 16 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 2 separate publishers

    reported by two

  • A deepened tech sell-off drags Asian stocks lower as markets in South Korea and Japan sink

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 4 separate publishers

    single source

  • IMF backs India's revised GDP methodology, projects it to overtake Japan as 4th-largest economy in 2027

    Reported claim · first reported 15 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 7 separate publishers

    single source

  • Economic indicator: core CPI & CPI

    Registered event · reported 2 Sept 2026 to 14 Oct 2026 · claims are not yet placed under registered events

    Open event

  • Japan and South Korea Stocks Rebound in Early Trading as Kospi Gains Over 1.7%, Samsung Rises Over 3%, SK Hynix Gains Nearly 3%

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 1 separate publisher

    could not check

  • Trina Storage Secures 196 MWh Battery Energy Storage System Supply Contract for AEJ Nozu Project in Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 3 separate publishers

    single source

  • North Korea Test-Fires Two Types Of Submarine-Launched Cruise Missiles In Sea Of Japan

    Reported claim · first reported 14 Oct 2026 · 1 claim · best-carried claim: 8 separate publishers

    corroborated

Walk the record from Japan

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Japan

Entity.

Evidence
5,746 documents · 470 separate publishers · a mention shows the name is in use, not that any claim about it is true
Standing
A name from our starting list; its record is kept up to date automatically from coverage
Time
first seen 6 Apr 2026, last seen 20 Oct 2026
Measured
6% of mentions say something specific about it; the rest only name it
As of
20 Oct 2026
23 links from here

Who it moves with: the 10 names are in the map above.

What is claimed about it (12)

  • Corroborated: Reported by three or more sources that did not copy each other.
  • Reported by two: Reported by two sources that did not copy each other.
  • Single source: Reported by one source so far.
  • Could not check: We could not count this claim's sources, so we do not say how well it is supported.

Situations it is named in (1)

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What the coverage says

Recent reporting that names Japan, newest first. Open any row to follow it to the original article.

What it connects to

Related records.

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Recorded history

  • 18 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: flagged to watch

    Previous state held since 16 Oct 2026

  • 18 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: rising to insufficient_history

    Previous state held since 16 Oct 2026

  • 16 Oct 2026

    wire tier changed: watch to flagged

    Previous state held since 6 Oct 2026

  • 16 Oct 2026

    coverage state changed: insufficient_history to rising

    Previous state held since 6 Oct 2026

4 changes recorded since 10 Oct 2026, newest first.

Ask about JapanWatch Japan

Story momentum counts mentions in tracked coverage. Prices are the market’s own, cited with the venue. Informational only, not advice. As of 20 Oct 2026.